Being on the run. What is that? How does that feel?: Kindergarten

Images of fleeing people: men, women, children and babies. Unfortunately, they were again ubiquitous in newspapers, on television, and other media outlets. Young children also come into contact with it: they see images on television or in the newspaper, hear fragments of the radio news, they hear adults talking about it, they see images on mom or dad's smartphone. “What is that?”, “What are they doing?”. How do you talk about 'being on the run' with young children? Read more in this article on the Kleutergewijs blog, including some tips from the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (2017) and some picture books that translate this theme to young children, such as 'Crocodile on the way to better' (Slegers, 2019 ).